Learning Reinvented Podcast - Episode 9 - Taking coaching from the training ground into business - Ad Davies

Welcome to another edition of the Learning Reinvented podcast, brought to you by The Learning Effect Team. In this episode host James Poletyllo speaks to Ad Davies. Where Ad shares his journey from coaching at Leicester City to shaping learning and development at Gymshark. Ad shares how he translates what he has learnt between the two environments. Although a self confessed “non-expert” Ad shares with us his real-world thoughts and insights and mistakes and successes along the way. The Learning Reinvented Podcast aims to bring a variety of new and different voices to talk about the current and future state of learning at work. We want our conversations to be though provoking, useful and real world. We appreciate your thoughts and feedback to help achieve this. About The Learning Effect The Learning Effect’s vision is to help companies create purposeful, consumer grade learning experiences which help you deliver your business goals and your team realise their potential. If you are looking to change your companies learning or for new learning technologies we should be your first call. To help learning professional improve their practice, The Learning Effect Community which is a platform for learning professionals to collaborate and share best practice. Click here to register.    About the Guest – Ad Davies Ad is a People Development Partner at Gymshark where he has been part of the team that has helped the business grow from 190 to 500 people and achieve phenomenal success. He began his career as a coach at Leicester City, but then a missed promotion opportunity set his into the uncharted territory of HR and Learning where he is now part of another success story. Ad is genuine, honest, thoughtful and collaborative in his approach. CONTACT METHOD   To follow Ad: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-davies-43ad/ Instagram: – @ad_davies_    To follow Gymshark: Twitter: @Gymshark Instagram: @gymshark Website: https://www.gymshark.com/   About the Host - James Poletyllo James is one of the founding director's of The Learning Effect. With 20 years experience of leading learning functions in a variety of industries he is now focused on helping organisations create consumer grade learning experiences which deliver results and performance.   He is passionate about making a difference and is on a mission to change the future of learning at work for the good of every employee. CONTACT METHOD You can follow and connect with James via: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamespoletyllo/ Website: https://www.thelearningeffect.co.uk Email: [email protected]